Monday, March 28, 2011

We held a small but productive and successful Twisted sprint, kindly hosted once again by tenth, and attended by glyph, exarkun, jesstess and lewq.

The aim of the sprint was to do the first pre-release of Twisted 11.0 - and we managed to resolve almost all of the blocking tickets, so a partial success. :-)

One of the two main themes of the work was the twisted.web templating code, which got tidied up and properly documented - there's a new tutorial (temporarily available at http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builds/sphinx-html/291-15849/projects/web/howto/twisted-templates.html), which demonstrates this neat little templating engine in action. The other theme was completing and merging the file descriptor closing branch which exarkun and lewq worked on, bringing FreeBSD just a few test-fixes away from being a fully supported platform - and importantly stopped the FreeBSD builder hanging on testing trunk, which will help catch regressions.

#4854 - Replace the implementation of IReactorSSL with one based on twisted.protocols.tls #3690 - SerialPort never calls connectionLost(reason) #4969 - Add CONNECT support to HTTP client #4951 - links in twisted.web docs are broken

That's it until next time, enjoy Twisted 11.0 when it comes out! We still have the PyCon sprint to report on, watch for that soon.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Last month, Twisted held another very successful sprint. A late write-up is better than no write-up, so here's what went on.

In attendance were Glyph, Tenth, Itamar, Mike Handverger, Luke, and myself (Jean-Paul). Remotely, Jonathan J. and Stephen Thorne helped out. Quite a few tickets were worked on, and various reviews were done as well. Here's a list (bold indicates now closed):